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The two are connected — the belief that paying the cost of one’s own decisions is somehow “unfair” goes hand in hand with leftism.

What I was getting at was the ridiculousness of the idea that there was some general "cost of raising children" out there that had to be borne by fewer and fewer people, as though that put an additional burden on the ones who decided to raise children. The fact is that fewer and fewer people at the higher end of the income spectrum are paying a greater and greater percentage of the cost of government. Also, I've heard people say that we couldn't have large families today because there isn't as much disposable income as there used to be. This is absurd. Back in the days of 6 to 8 children families (like those of my father and my mother), there was far less disposable income than there is now. Nowadays, in comparison, families spend huge amounts of money on forms of entertainment that didn't even exist 50 years ago and which, if they were suddenly lost tomorrow, would not impoverish a child's mind or his spirit.